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Introducing Pattern Reuse in the Design of Multi-agent Systems

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In the last years,multi-agent systems (MAS)have proved more and more successful.The need of a quality software engineering approach to their design arises together with the need of new methodological ways to address important issues such as ontology representation, security concerns and production costs.The introduction of an extensive pattern reuse practice can be determinant in cutting down the time and cost of developing these systems.Patterns can be extremely successful with MAS (even more than with object-oriented systems)because the great encapsulation of agents allows an easier identification and disposition of reusable parts.In this paper we discuss our approach to the pattern reuse that is a phase of a more comprehensive approach to agentoriented software design.

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  1. 1 ICAR/CNR -Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni/Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, c/o CUC,Viale delle Scienze, 90128, Palermo, Italy

    Massimo Cossentino

  2. DINFO -Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Universita’ degli Studi di, Palermo Viale delle Scienze, 90128, Palermo, Italy

    Piermarco Burrafato, Saverio Lombardo & Luca Sabatucci

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jaime G. Carbonell

  2. University of Saarland, Saabrücken, Germany

    Jörg Siekmann

  3. CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton, 3053, Victoria, Australia

    Ryszard Kowalczyk

  4. Siemens AG, CT IC 6, Munich, Germany

    Jörg P. Müller

  5. Department of Computing, Glasgow Caledonian University, City Campus, 70 Cowcaddens Road, G4 0BA, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Huaglory Tianfield

  6. Institute for Computer Science, University of Essen, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

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Cossentino, M., Burrafato, P., Lombardo, S., Sabatucci, L. (2003). Introducing Pattern Reuse in the Design of Multi-agent Systems. In: Carbonell, J.G., Siekmann, J., Kowalczyk, R., Müller, J.P., Tianfield, H., Unland, R. (eds) Agent Technologies, Infrastructures, Tools, and Applications for E-Services. NODe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36559-1_10

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